When my children were growing up we were very close with another family and often our visits would last past regular bedtime. On occasion the visit would turn into a sleep over. One night the other family was getting ready to leave but as usual the other mother and I lingered, still chatting at the door. My oldest daughter and her's repeatedly interupted asking for a sleep over. Again and again they were told no but they kept asking. Finally I turned and said "read my lips, the answer is no" to which my daughter burst out crying "But I can't read!"
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- i used to beleive that everyone in the world went to sleep at 8:00pm (my bedtime)— yvette yasui
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to think that i was the oldest kid of my family because my birthday came first— The youngest of kids
- My young daughter thought that night came after the trees ate all the sunlight.— Bruce
- When my daughter was small she developed tonsillitis but she told everyone she had "tongues and lighters"— Jeannie Bee